Is changing the oil seals hard?

 

Which ones?

 

well if you dont know what you are doing yeah it is hard ...

you got cam seal crank sealbalencer seal ( not a easy jobyou must pull the timing belt )
rear main seal (not easy you gotta pull the tranny )

 

I replaced my cam seal balance shaft seal crankshaft seal , timing and balance shaft belts and water pump in about 2.30 hours.

 

i'm talking about the crank and cam oil seals. Assuming I got everything ie timing belt out already, will it be tricky to change them?

matix, u got to be bsing. That's pretty quick. My dealer said it would take 10 hours.

 

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matix, u got to be bsing. That's pretty quick. My dealer said it would take 10 hours.</TD></TR></TABLE>
When you do them everyday they can be done in less than an hour.

 

Im not bsing your dealer is. The first time i did it it took 4 hours. And that was when i noticed the leak but didnt have the seal. So I got the seal and did it again a week later. After you do it once you dont run into the problems you do the first time and its a cakewalk.

 

oh yea if you are gonna do it . Buy all the oil seals so down the road you dont have a problem like me with a leak after you were already in their.Saves time.

 

so why did ur oil seal leaks? U didn't put it in right or soemthing? U said it did it again later.

 

I didnt buy the balancer shaft seal. And when i opened it up that was were the leak was and they had to order the seal. So i had to do it again when i received the seal. and no seals are easy to put in just use a giant socket

 

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matix, u got to be bsing. That's pretty quick. My dealer said it would take 10 hours.</TD></TR></TABLE>

dealers always bs. they told me 4-5 hours to replace some shocks, it ended up taking me about 2 hours with some major complications (one of the threads on the struts was fuxed and i had to repair it).

changing the seals and timing belt shouldnt be too hard if you know what you're doing, pick up a helms manual, maybe even a haynes if you dont wanna spend that much, and you'll have a pretty good reference while you do it.

 

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dealers always bs. they told me 4-5 hours to replace some shocks, it ended up taking me about 2 hours with some major complications (one of the threads on the struts was fuxed and i had to repair it).

changing the seals and timing belt shouldnt be too hard if you know what you're doing, pick up a helms manual, maybe even a haynes if you dont wanna spend that much, and you'll have a pretty good reference while you do it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

4-5 hours maybe because of waiting time and double checking and other customers, dealerships want to do a good job.....but year, takes about 2 hours to replace shocks and springs/coilovers...

 

i dont mean 5 hours like..."yah, well have it back to you in 5 hours", 5 hours as in:

them: it'll cost about $400 to replace them
me: wtf?
them: yah, 5 hour job, $80 per hour.